Kaun Banega Crorepati (2010 season)

Kaun Banega Crorepati
Host	Amitabh Bachchan
Start Date	October 11, 2010
End Date	December 9, 2010
Number of Episodes	36
Number of Contestants	69
Prize Winnings
₹10,000,000 Winners	1
₹5,000,000 Winners	4
₹2,500,000 Winners	8
₹1,250,000 Winners	9
₹640,000 Winners	4
₹320,000 Winners	14
₹160,000 Winners	2
₹10,000 Winners	6
Total Winnings	Rs. 68,670,000
Average Winnings Per Contestant	Rs. 1,430,625 (on 48 contestants, except "Hot Seat" contestants and 1 "out of game")

This is the fourth season of Kaun Banega Crorepati, Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Hosted by Amitabh Bachchan. Top prize is ₹5 Crore (₹50,000,000).

Episodes 13-16 used the Hot Seat format where celebrities only appeared.

Changes

• This was the first season that uses new unique Rave graphic that was a fusion of Rave's purple flux background and 2008 dark blue graphic in the US syndication version, half a part of soundtrack was replaced by Ramon Covalo.
  • In addition, the logo was also altered to include the then-newly released Indian rupee symbol.
  • Episodes 13-16 used the Hot Seat graphic that is similar to what would later be used in the Portugal Hot Seat version.
• In this season, each contestant had a clock: 30 seconds on questions 1-2, 45 seconds on questions 3-6. On questions 7-13, clock disappeared.
• Since this season, if a contestant answers correctly the ₹1 Crore question, they will receive the million-pound win cue and the confetti drop that typically accompanies winning the crore, even though it's not the top prize question.
• Starting with this season, the Fastest Finger First row is the same across the entire week, only to be reset the next week. This change would later ve carried over across all Indian versions of the show.

Lifelines

In this season, five lifelines are used (four in the regular episodes, only one in the Hot Seat episodes):

• Phone-a-Friend
• Audience Poll
• Ask the Expert
• Double Dip (after 8th question)
• Pass (episodes 13-16)

Episodes

• Episode 1 (11 October 2010)

Rajesh Chauhan (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)
Alok Kumar (Rs. 20,000, continued)

• Episode 2 (12 October 2010)

Alok Kumar (Rs. 1,250,000)
Chavda Vanrajsinh (Rs. 40,000, continued)

• Episode 3 (13 October 2010)

Chavda Vanrajsinh (Rs. 2,500,000)
Akanshi Singh Parihar (Rs. 80,000, continued)

• Episode 4 (14 October 2010)

Akanshi Singh Parihar (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)
Geetika Pandey (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 2,500,000)

• Episode 5 (18 October 2010)

Ramaa Anand (Rs. 2,500,000)
Manish Agarwal (Rs. 10,000, continued)

• Episode 6 (19 October 2010)

Manish Agarwal (Rs. 1,250,000)
Deepak Rambhav Kamble (Rs. 10,000, continued)

• Episode 7 (20 October 2010)

Deepak Rambhau Kamble (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)
Gunjan Shukla (Rs. 80,000, continued)

• Episode 8 (21 October 2010)

Gunjan Shukla (Rs. 640,000)
Braham Pal Mavi Gujar (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 80,000)
Nupur Srivastava (Rs. 160,000, continued)

• Episode 9 (25 October 2010)

Nupur Srivastava (Rs. 2,500,000)
Anupama Sanghi (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 20,000)

• Episode 10 (26 October 2010)

Jyoti Agrawal (Rs. 1,250,000)
Mayank Sumantray Trivedi (Rs. 160,000, continued)

• Episode 11 (27 October 2010)

Mayank Sumantray Trivedi (Rs. 2,500,000)
Sabarna Chatterjee (Rs. 80,000, continued)

• Episode 12 (28 October 2010)

Sabarna Chatterjee (Rs. 2,500,000)
Pranay Shetty (Rs. 2,500,000)

• Episode 13 (1 November 2010) - Diwali Special (1)

Akshay Kumar (Rs. 5,000,000),
Vipul Shah,
Neha Dhupia,
Aditya Roy Kapoor,
Shefali Shah,
Rannvijay Singh

• Episode 14 (2 November 2010) - Diwali Special (2)

Sushil Kumar,
Ashwini Ponnappa,
Leander Paes,
S. Sreesanth,
Jwala Gutta,
Manoj Kumar (Rs. 2,500,000)

• Episode 15 (3 November 2010) - Diwali Special (3)

Disha Vakani,
Bharti Singh,
Ragini Khanna (Rs. 1,250,000),
Pooja Gor,
Aishwarya Sakhuja,
Aashka Goradia

• Episode 16 (4 November 2010) - Diwali Special (4)

Arshad Warsi,
Kunal Khemu,
Ajay Devgan (Rs. 5,000,000),
Tusshar Kapoor,
Shreyas Talpade,
Rohit Shetty

• Episode 17 (8 November 2010)

Vibhooti Sharma (Rs. 160,000)
Prashant Batar (Rs. 640,000, continued)

• Episode 18 (9 November 2010)

Prashant Batar (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 50,000,000)
Jyoti Chauhan (Rs. 0, continued)

• Episode 19 (10 November 2010)

Jyoti Chauhan (Rs. 1,250,000)
Prajna Paramita Guru (Rs. 80,000, continued)

• Episode 20 (11 November 2010)

Prajna Paramita Guru (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)
Sapna Khajuria (Rs. 640,000)

• Episode 21 (15 November 2010)

Manoj Sharma (Rs. 5,000,000)

• Episode 22 (16 November 2010)

Uresh Bhaskar Rai (Rs. Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)
Monika Jaiswal (Rs. 640,000, continued)

• Episode 23 (17 November 2010)

Monika Jaiswal (Rs. 1,250,000)
Akhil Kumar Singh (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)
Namrata Sen (Rs. 160,000, continued)

• Episode 24 (18 November 2010)

Namrata Sen (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 2,500,000)
Anuradha Vatti (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 80,000)
Rahat Taslim (Rs. 320,000, continued)

• Episode 25 (22 November 2010)

Rahat Taslim (Rs. 10,000,000)
Jayanti Harpreet (Rs. 10,000, continued)

• Episode 26 (23 November 2010)

Jayanti Harpreet (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 320,000)
Raj Kumar (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 80,000)
Rajesh Kumar (Rs. 80,000, continued)

• Episode 27 (24 November 2010)

Rajesh Kumar (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 5,000,000)
Rajesh Singh (Rs. 40,000, continued)

• Episode 28 (25 November 2010)

Rajesh Singh (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 2,500,000)
Sahiba Bajwa (Rs. 640,000, continued)

• Episode 29 (29 November 2010)

Sahiba Bajwa (Rs. 2,500,000)
Shriram Barupal (Rs. 80,000, continued)

• Episode 30 (30 November 2010)

Shriram Barupal (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)
Keshaw Kumar Jalan (Rs. 1,250,000)
Shubhi Awasthi (Rs. 0, continued)

• Episode 31 (1 December 2010)

Shubhi Awasthi (Rs. 10,000 - lost on Rs. 320,000)
Nisha Sushil Gupta (Rs. 1,250,000)

• Episode 32 (2 December 2010)

Vandana Singh (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 1,250,000)
Shyamli Sinha (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 640,000)

• Episode 33 (6 December 2010) - Finale Week (1)

Manoj Kumar Verma (Rs. 5,000,000)
Madhuri Dixit (Rs. -, out of game)
Kamini Agarwal (Rs. 0, continued)

• Episode 34 (7 December 2010) - Finale Week (2)

Kamini Agarwal (Rs. 160,000)
Mahaveer Prasad (Rs. 640,000, continued)

• Episode 35 (8 December 2010) - Finale Week (3)

Mahaveer Prasad (Rs. 640,000)
Kiran Pathak (Rs. 1,250,000)

• Episode 36 (9 December 2010) - Grand Finale

Shailesh Kumar Yadav (Rs. 320,000 - lost on Rs. 1,250,000)
Hema Nilesh Bahule (Rs. 640,000)

Trivia

• During the Hot Seat episodes, Bharti Singh was the only contestant to not give an answer to any question.

Gallery

Hot Seat logo

Preceded by Season 3

Indian Series Season 4

Succeeded by Season 5